Exam 2: Management Learning Past to Present

Maslow's ideas point managers toward finding ways to link volunteer work with opportunities to satisfy higher-order needs like esteem and self-actualization.

According to the deficit principle, a satisfied need is a motivator of behavior.

Adrian is worried about his factory's consecutive decrease in profits due to the goods that are damaged in the storehouse. This has increased his cost of factors of production. In an attempt to tackle the problem, he has set up a system of measuring the needs of his clients and manufacturing the required number of products. Which of the following approaches has Adrian adopted?

_____ allow project managers to analyze, plan, and control timetables for the completion of activity sub-sets.

A coal extracting company is worried about the depleting coal reserves in various parts of the world. It wants to make future projections for reserve sizes and depletion rates that are useful in the planning process. Which of the following quantitative approaches should the company apply?

Continuous improvement involves always searching for new ways to improve work quality and performance.

Managers holding Theory Y assumptions approach their jobs believing that those who work for them generally dislike work, lack ambition, act irresponsibly, and prefer to be led rather than to lead.

The principles of scientific management were proposed by Frederick Taylor.

The primary goal of scientific management is to:

____ management involves making decisions based on hard facts about what really works.

After a series of scientific tests, Elton Mayo and his team of researchers concluded that new a "social setting" created for workers in a test room decreased the productivity of those employees.

At the level of _____ needs, the deficit and progression principles cease to operate.

Which of the following matches correctly?

Argyris asserts that psychological success occurs when people define their own goals.